One of the best puzzle games ever is getting surprise DLC even though its developer kind of closed a while ago

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From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we’ve got you covered. Signup + Once a month SFX Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! Signup + An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter Opus Magnum, a stellar 2017 puzzle game about building alchemical devices, is getting a surprise new DLC campaign.Opus Magnum: De Re Metallica will release on March 17, and adds three prequel chapters to the game with a total of 17 new puzzles, new cutscenes and music, and new glyphs (machine components). It’s “around half the length” of the original campaign, according to developer Zachtronics.It’s a little weird to be citing Zachtronics, never mind talking about a new DLC release from the studio, because it sort of isn’t around anymore. But it also sort of is, clearly. Related articles Jonathan Blow’s new game has the most ‘Jonathan Blow’s new game’ pitch imaginable: A ‘game design supercollider’ that takes 4 puzzle games and jams them together into a 500-hour saga Baba is News: One of the best puzzle games of the last decade just got a major update seven years after release Is today’s puzzle game scene interesting? ‘No, I don’t think it is,’ says Jonathan Blow, even though there are ‘really good games in the past’ devs could look to for inspiration Zachtronics is one of the puzzle game greats—aside from Opus Magnum, which we awarded a 91% in our review, it’s known for TIS-100, Infinifactory, SpaceChem, and a bunch of other excellent puzzle and strategy games. A few years ago, however, studio founder Zach Barth declared in a PC Gamer interview that “Zachtronics is over.”Even then it was only kind of over, though, because Barth and others then formed Coincidence, a new studio that has carried on making games, most notably Kaizen: A Factory Story. I suspect that the new entity had something to do